• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    Why can’t a complex number be described in a Banach-Tarsky space?

    In such a case the difference between any two complex numbers would be a distance. And sure, formally a distance would need be a scalar, but for most practical use anyone would understand a vector as a distance with a direction.

    • Kogasa@programming.dev
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      The distance between two complex numbers is the modulus or their difference, a real number